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“simon dresner”

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  • The Principles of Sustainability

    by Simon Dresner ...
    At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration and climate change, sustainability is one of the most important issues facing the world. Can we create a sustainable society? What would that mean? How should we set about doing it? How can we bring about such a profound change in the way things are organized? This text tackles these questions directly. It covers: historical development ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • The End of Karma

    Hope and Fury Among India's Young

    by Somini Sengupta ...
    “[A] sharply observed study . . . richly detailed portraits.”—EconomistSomini Sengupta emigrated from Calcutta to California as a young child in 1975. Returning thirty years later as the bureau chief for The New York Times, she found a vastly different country: one defined as much by aspiration and possibility—at least by the illusion of possibility—as it is by the structures of sex and caste. The ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fighting for Darfur

    Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide

    by Rebecca Hamilton, Mia Farrow ...
    Around the world, millions of people have added their voices to protest marches and demonstrations because they believe that, together, they can make a difference. When we failed to stop the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, we promised to never let such a thing happen again. But nine years later, as news began to trickle out of killings in western Sudan, an area known as Darfur, the international ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Aid Triangle

    Recognizing the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and Identity

    by Malcolm MacLachlan, Stuart Carr, Eilish McAuliffe ...
    The Aid Triangle focuses on the human dynamics of international aid and illustrates how the aid system incorporates power relationships, and therefore relationships of dominance.Using the concept of a triangle of dominance, justice and identity, this timely work explains how the experience of injustice is both a challenge and a stimulus to personal, community and national identity, and how such ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Canada and the Third World

    Overlapping Histories

    Edited by Karen Dubinsky, Sean Mills, Scott Rutherford ...
    Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies.Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Overheating

    An Anthropology of Accelerated Change

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion around global modernity, bringing an anthropologist’s approach to bear on the three interrelated crises of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthropology and Development

    Understanding Contemporary Social Change

    by Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan ...
    This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology's principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Great African Land Grab?

    Agricultural Investments and the Global Food System

    by Lorenzo Cotula ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines in media reports across the world. Land that only a short time ago seemed of little outside interest is now being sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Private-sector expectations of higher world food and commodity prices and government concerns ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy

    by Doctor Thiven Reddy ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the 'extraordinary', which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Towards Financial Self-reliance

    A Handbook of Approaches to Resource Mobilization for Citizens' Organizations

    by Richard Holloway ...
    'Provides an excellent conceptual framework for the various approaches to resource mobilization.'Paiboon Wattanasiritham, Director General, Chief Executive Officer, Government Savings Bank, ThailandA clear and practical guide aimed at the managers of civil society organizations, including non-governmental organizations, citizens' movements, co-operatives, trade unions and other grass-roots ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • National Interests and European Integration

    Discourse and Politics of Blair, Chirac and Schröder

    by K. Milzow ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This study combines an account of Blair, Chirac, Schröder and their attitudes towards European integration. It analyzes political discourses on 'national interests' and the EU, the frequently debated role of political discourse, the concept of national interest, and offers an alternative point of view on intergovernmental interaction. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Planetary Passport

    Re-presentation, Accountability and Re-Generation

    by Janet McIntyre-Mills ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores the implications of knowing our place in the universe and recognising our hybridity. It is a series of self-reflections and essays drawing on many diverse ways of knowing. The book examines the complex ethical challenges of closing the wide gap in living standards between rich and poor people/communities. The notion of an ecological citizen is presented with a focus on ... Read more

    $89.09 USD